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Are you interested in digital products? Are you curious to learn what it takes to successfully lead the product teams that build and manage the hottest digital products? Join us for a panel discussion featuring PdM experts who will share their real-world insights on this important, and rapidly evolving discipline.

The role of the Product Manager is one of the most sought-after careers in the tech industry today. PdMs play a crucial role in driving the development of a product and act on behalf of customers’ interests. From facilitating communication between engineering and design teams to relaying customer needs, Product Managers oversee the product lifecycle from ideation to execution.

*Event is non-refundable and non-transferable.

Speakers

Swapna Malekar

Senior Product Manager

Swapna is a Senior Product Manager at RBC, leading their innovation stream to create products and digital solutions using lean methodologies.

Prior to RBC, Swapna was the Head of Product at a UK-based SaaS Data intelligence company, Klood, that provided insights to enterprise clients through artificial intelligence.

Whilst in Singapore, Swapna was responsible for driving the Ecommerce growth for the Asian and European regions for the world’s largest publishing company, Scholastic as their Product Manager.

She started her career with Accenture, and is a technology buff through and though. Her current passion is finding innovative usecases for blockchain and AI in the fintech/banking domain.

Mihnea Galeteanu

Director, Product Management

Mihnea has spent the past 15 years imagining, building, breaking and marketing Software products of all shapes and sizes, currently serving as a Director of Product Management at Points and adviser to a couple of startups . Whether at work or at home, he splits his time equally between making and creating a culture of making and entrepreneurship. “Why” is his favorite question. He values “What if” over “No”. Walk and talk over stuffy rooms with slides. He’ll take the word of your current or future users (or the data you have about them) about you over your own words about yourself. Mihnea holds a Bachelor of Enginneering in Software from Carleton University, an MBA from the Rotman School of Management and is hard at work on earning a “Father of the Year” mug.

Joel Dick

Head of Product

Joel leads Project for Overbond, a leading Toronto FinTech startup bringing together issuers, investors, and dealers in the fixed income market. He has seven years of industry experience with both startups and large corporations as founder, engineer, investment banker, and product manager. Joel's goal is to bring disruptive innovation the capital markets sector by through machine learning and predictive AI.

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